pant
verb /pænt/
/pænt/
[intransitive, transitive]Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they pant | /pænt/ /pænt/ |
| he / she / it pants | /pænts/ /pænts/ |
| past simple panted | /ˈpæntɪd/ /ˈpæntɪd/ |
| past participle panted | /ˈpæntɪd/ /ˈpæntɪd/ |
| -ing form panting | /ˈpæntɪŋ/ /ˈpæntɪŋ/ |
- to breathe quickly with short breaths, usually with your mouth open, because you have been doing some physical exercise, or because it is very hot
- She finished the race panting heavily.
- She could hear him panting up the stairs (= running up and breathing quickly).
- He found her panting for breath at the top of the hill.
- + speech ‘Wait for me!’ he panted.
Extra ExamplesTopics Health and Fitnessc2- She was panting with the effort of carrying the suitcase.
- ‘Keep going, we'll get there in time!’ she panted.
- Eventually he arrived at the gate, puffing and panting.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- heavily
- loudly
- slightly
- …
- for
- with
- puff and pant
Word OriginMiddle English: related to Old French pantaisier ‘be agitated, gasp’, based on Greek phantasioun ‘cause to imagine’, from phantasia ‘imagination, appearance’, later ‘phantom’, from phantazein ‘make visible’.
Idioms
puff and pant
(also puff and blow informal)
- to breathe quickly and loudly through your mouth after physical effort
- Eventually, puffing and panting, he arrived at the gate.
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